National Republican., 1887-12-17
BIIHEn BEAN OR BUTTON.
The Ffeiheit Family Disagreed, but
tho Doctor Got the Case.
lSan Francisco Call1

San Francisco Calf
The question whether it was a bean
or a button was the subject OF conju-
gal polemics iu which sleismund Frelheit
and his spouse were seriously involved last
Monday. While DIR. johnson, the assistant
secretary Of the health board, was sitting
in his private office with a brother
physician, they heard an energetic discus
sion In German between two persons
on the stairway outside. Presently the door
opened, and man and his wife, both ap.
preaching middle age, entered. The man
had child In bie arms and shared his wifes
distress over something dreadful that had
happened to It. Both started In at once to
present the case to the kind hearted doctor.
zone at time, please" said the doctor.
yves, yes; Dow you just keep still,
Meepa,n said the man to his wife, "and 1
will tell what is the matter. Why, you sec,
this little child got ehoe button"
"a bean," interrupted his spouse.
"Now you keep still, Meena," said the
tor, he's get button up his nose"
"No, no, DOCTOR" quickly broke In the
wife; SIT is not button, It is bean.n
"MeenaW shouted the man, "what are
you talking about, say it was shoe
at wasn't button, doctor; It was big
blue beam" the woman replied with yigor.
"What do you kick up this row In the
dcctor's Office for, MeenaP" said tho man
In anger. "Tbese women are all so stupid"
''Oh, you're stupid, Sigismund; you don't
know any,hing," retorted the wife.
doctor, don't mind that fool; she don't
know CT W from head OF cabbage"
"C.me, come, my good people," inter-
posed the doctor, "don't quarrel over it.
The child has got something up Its nose,
"Yts, doctor, BUTTON" said the man.
"No, doctor, beam" Immediately broke
from the woman. who was now thoroughly
arouted.
swell, bean or button, It must come
out,n said the doctor.
"Yee, the button" said the man.
"You lie, sigismund; it's q bean," said
the wife.
The doctor quelled the riot by asking the
parents to place the child In chair and
then laid out an array OF about seventeen
Instruments, only one OF which he had any
use for. Selecting bright, delicate hook
with long shank he advanced toward tho
infantile patient
What's that's What that ?" broke in
the father. ~ never had such thing put
into my body and won't let such things
be put into the body Of my offspring," and
the oflice.i
AS they were going down stairs the
young ono sneezed and out came the bone
OF conteDtion-a little shoe button. The
father picked 1t up and rushed back to the
office.
button ?"
The woman being thus forced into
acquiescence had nothing more to say, but
her husband proceeded to explain to the
doctor how the button got up the child's
nose, and, placing 1t In his own nostril, by
way Of illustration, he gave q sudden sniff
and up went the button into his own nose.
A spasmodic effort to blow It out failed in
its purpose, and the man now became
alarmed for himself.
ut must come out" said the doctor, tor
1t will be likely to produce cancerous af-
fection or cerebral Inflammation"
"What's thatP My God! Take 1t out,
doctor, take It outp'
Once more the doctor produced his hook,
and in a moment landed tho little black
button in the palm of his hand. Then he
collected his fee, and the Freiheit family
departed, wiser and happier for having the
question, "Bean or button" settled.